Queering SF
by Ritch Calvin
The essays contained in Queering SF provide an introduction to some of
the shades of queer in SF writing. SF is not a monolith. Queer SF is
not, either. Writers of queer SF approach it in a variety of ways,
with a variety of end goals. The essays here aim to introduce readers
to a wide range of writers and texts, some familiar, some
unfamiliar. These essays demonstrate some of the ways in which queer
SF pushes at the very generic norms of SF. The idea of SF, the
characteristics of SF, the content of SF have all been shaped (a) in a
particular place and time, and (b) in one's own reading
experience. Many of these writers want to challenge what SF looks like
and does.
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Can't Find My Way Home
by Gwynne Garfinkle
"Garfinkle catches exactly the passionate and reckless moods of the
anti-Vietnam War movement among young people in those years, the
deadly naiveté, delight in rebellion, and idealistic misunderstanding
of where events just had to go from there…. Writing a really good
ghost story is a lot harder than it looks. But Garfinkle pulls it off
with élan and produces a wonderful story about lives unlived, for one
reason or another, shifting perspectives, what (if anything) we owe
our dead, and how we reflect each other, hold each other back, and
provide the take-off for others’ sprints into maturity."
—Suzy McKee Charnas, author of The Vampire Tapestry and
The Holdfast Chronicles
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Memories of Tomorrow
by Mayi Pelot
This collection, the first book published by Mayi Pelot, includes six
stories that take place in the same galaxy but at different
times. Touching on subgenres such as social speculative fiction, the
techno-thriller, and space opera, Memories of Tomorrow is, in essence,
a poignant political commentary on the oppressive systems that rule
our world and their practices of othering, neocolonialism,
gentrification, and massive exploitation of natural resources. Pelot
often focuses her lens on those questioning and resisting the actions
of the powerful and points to the relationship with nature and one
another as a healthy, sustainable alternative to our current world
structure.
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We've Been Here Before
by Anne Carly Abad
In the spaces between dreams and reality, the strange and the familiar
intersect. As if walking into different pockets of existence, each
poem is a world of its own, but with beings who experience joy and
pain the same ways we do. Suddenly, there is this undeniable sense—of
being able to cross the liquid boundary between the self and the
Other.
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Fricatives
by Cesi Davidson
“Don’t be deceived by what may appear to be delightful, soft spoken
‘playlets’ which could easily be developed into full length plays. The
Fricatives anthology dives deep and extends wide into complex dilemmas
of race, class, gender, and spirituality. Cesi Davidson crafts this
inquiry with characters ranging from inanimate objects, to food, to
animals. When her characters are human, their authentic dialogue is
flavored with magical realism that entrances the reader and spirits
them to the end of the tale. Don’t be afraid to surrender your soul,
naked to the depth in these plays. Whether read or performed, it’s an
unforgettable trip.”
—Tonya Pinkins, Tony Award-winning actor and
award-winning filmmaker of RED PILL
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The Adventure of the Golden Woman
by Cynthia Ward
The wildly fun, fast-paced finale to Ward’s Blood-Thirsty Agent series...[is] an exhilarating example of alternate history, weaving classic characters into a narrative that’s as bombastically entertaining as it is thoughtful
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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For the Good of the Realm
by Nancy Jane Moore
For the Good of the Realm is a splendid, swashbuckling romp that captures the very spirit of the Musketeers. The author weaves palace intrigue, swordplay, romance and divided loyalties into a deeply satisfying fantasy adventure with women at the center of the narrative, wielding and negotiating power.
—Tansy Rayner Roberts, author of Musketeer Space and The Creature Court Trilogy
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The Silences of Ararat
by L. Timmel Duchamp
It’s an old, old story: the King loses what passes for his mind and
accuses his perfect trophy wife of adultery and prepares to have her
put to death. Temporary insanity, right? Often in such cases, there’s
collateral damage, and that’s the case in this story. But who, in a
monarchy like Ararat, can oppose the King? Enter, Paulina, stage left,
a sculptor with a hidden talent, a dea ex machina with her own ideas
about how this story should end.
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Resistance and Transformation
by Mari Ness
A group of French aristocrats, trapped by their culture and gender,
wanted to speak out against the regime and the king. But they could
not, for that king was Louis XIV.
And so they turned to fairy tales. In this collection of fourteen
essays, Mari Ness explores the lives and tales of these remarkable
writers who used fairy tales to subtly critique – and in a few cases,
support – the absolutist rule of Louis XIV. They include the
scandalous Henriette Julie de Murat, imprisoned for debauchery, and
rumored to wear men's clothing; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force,
imprisoned for writing impious poetry; and Madame d'Aulnoy, who spent
years of her life in exile from her beloved country, but still
insisted on contributing to French literature. Told with wit and
humor, the essays help set beloved fairy tales into their historical
and cultural context. A must read for fairy tale lovers and anyone
interested in how words can be shaped into acts of resistance.
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Forkpoints
by Sheila Finch
Nebula Award winner Finch (Reading the Bones) delivers an
impressive, career-spanning collection celebrating the power a single
decision holds to change the shape of the world. Some of the 12
stories focus in on those pivotal moments; the gripping “Not This
Tide” leaps between the inexplicable supernatural experiences of a
girl and her father in WWII England, and the year 2035, in which the
now-elderly woman is a renowned world peace activist. Others place the
fateful decision in the background and chart the consequences, like
the wistful “The Old Man and C,” which imagines a world where Albert
Einstein followed his talent for violin instead of physics. Fans of
Finch’s Xenolinguist stories will enjoy encountering the author at her
lyrical best in “Sequoia Dreams,” about alien visitors who have a
profound ecological message to convey, and “Czerny at Midnight,” in
which a marine biologist’s autistic son communicates with an octopus
through music...
—Publishers Weekly
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Cabinet of Wrath
by Tara Campbell
Deep in the recesses of childhood memory, your old playthings
await. Listen: don’t you hear them crying out for you? Come take a
peek inside the Cabinet of Wrath to find out what really happens when
toys go missing and the stark decision they must make if they ever
want to go home again. Discover what doll heads really think about
being separated from their bodies. Follow a skull-and-bones novelty
ring as it assembles a full body for itself, bit by grisly bit, and
learn how loving your doll too much can lead to grave
consequences. Open the door to these fabulist tales of toys and
vengeance for a playtime you’ll never forget.
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Climbing Lightly through Forests
edited by Lisa M. Bradley and R. B. Lemberg
Climbing Lightly Through Forests hosts multiple conversations:
in this volume, poets respond to Ursula K. Le Guin, her work, or their
own reactions to Le Guin or her work; editors Lemberg and Bradley put
the poets in conversation with each other and with readers. Poets from
around the world (including Greece, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Chile,
the UK, Australia, Canada, and the United States) contribute
perspectives that both honor and challenge Le Guin’s legacy as a poet.
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Damned Pretty Things
by Holly Wade Matter
“Sweet as vanishing dreams, tender to the touch as new memories, wise
as nursery rhymes, tasty as blueberry pancakes, Holly Wade Matter's
Damned Pretty Things is a wondrous redemption tale of the triumph of
love and friendship over pain and difference."
—Nisi Shawl, author of
Everfair and Filter House
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Raven Nothing
by Som Paris
Raven Nothing is a portal story desperately needed for our
times. Raven, the protagonist, is a “crossover” in more ways than one,
and the novel reveals how these different crossings—with gender,
space, and psychology—intersect. Urgent, poignant, and lyrical, Raven
Nothing expands the possibilities of fantasy literature.
—Anya Johanna
DeNiro, author of Tyrannia and Total Oblivion, More or Less
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